Karel Domin
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| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Domin |
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Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician.
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Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 1906. Between 1911 and 1913 he published several important articles on Australian taxonomy.[1] In 1916 he was named as professor of botany. Domin specialised in phytogeography, geobotany and plant taxonomy. He became a member at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
, published many scientific works and founded a botany institute at the university. The Domin scale, a commonly used means of classifying a standard area by the number of plant species found in that area, is named after him.
In the academic year 1933-34 he was rector of Charles University and was one of the participants of a struggle for ancient academic insignia between the Czech and German universities of Prague (the insigniáda) that resulted in street-fights and looting. From 1935 to 1939 he was a member of parliament; after the Munich Agreement, he co-founded a traditionalist political movement (Akce národní obrody).
He is considered the man who is the most responsible the creation of Tatra National Park.[2]
References
- ^ Orchard, A. E. (1999). "Domin, Karel (1882 - 1953)". Australian National Botanic Gardens Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Australian Government. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ Karel Domin (1882 - 1953) Propagátor zákonné ochrany Tater, tj. národního parku
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Domin.
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